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Subject: Re: No cmd-opt-e in system 7?? (answer)
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In article <17926@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>, dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes...
>>> Am I just dumb or has apple removed cmd-opt-e from system 7.
>>
>>The answer is CMD-Y.  I am just dumb I guess since 5 people told me the 
>>answer within a few hours of posting.
> 
>No, you're not dumb.  Cmd-Y is dumb.  Cmd-Opt-E was "smart", in that
>it went and found the next ejectable disk, and ejected that one--it
>had some intelligence built in.  Cmd-Y is dumb--if you happen to have
>a volume selected (the usual case), it tries to eject that one, and
>whines if it can't.  If no volume is selected, it doesn't do anything.

Well ... I think of this as a feature.  No selection => no action is
logical.  Command-option-arrow commands can toggle the selections 
on the desktop, so dismounting disks can still be a mouse-free 
operation.  Cmd-Y does more than just eject disks, by the way.
It's actually rather "smart".  Try the following:

Open various folders containing the documents that you want to work
with during a session.  Drag the icons to a "pile" on the desktop,
select, and open.  When you're done with the session, select the 
pile and type cmd-Y:  the files are returned to their original
folders.  That's very nice.

I had resisted the idea of icon-dropping because I like to keep
applications in their own folders;  put-away makes this painless.

Bill (johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu)